Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

Specimens collected by the author of "Lolita" and self-taught lepidopterist are exhibited in his childhood home.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

Former estate of Lenin, now home to his death mask.

Back in the tiny USSR.

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

This series of Armenian caves held the oldest brain, shoe, and winery in the world.

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.